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These picture gives the most accurate shade of what the paint color looks like in there. It is called “Tear Drop” by Pittsburgh Paint. I used their Manor Hall line of paint in a pearl sheen so that it’s easy to wipe down.

The photo wall is mostly things we picked up last summer when we were on vacation at Bethany Beach; Jason’s family has been going there for vacation for years and years and I love it there! The silver frame in the top right holds a draft of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.” I just ripped it out of a book I had used for my thesis way back when since I figured I would most likely never read that book again and I love that poem! Underneath it, which you can’t read because of the reflection of the glass due to the light (we don’t have any natural light in this bathroom so it is very hard to photograph!) is a quote from e.e. cummings which reads “for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” I just fancied it up with some interesting font choices. On the left, the grey canvas was a gift we received this Christmas! Isn’t it cute? You can customize similar ones over at Red Envelope.

The floating cabinet above the toilet is a part of the Better Homes & Garden collection that’s at Wal-Mart. Yes, I said it. Wal-Mart! It was crazy cheap and I was in love with the cottage-style of it.

Installing the faucet wasn’t my favorite project but I am in love with its shape! The best part for us is that it has an aerator. Our old faucet did not have one, and we weren’t able to install a new one because the threads inside the faucet were damaged. So anytime we or a guest would wash their hands, water came out at full speed! It’s so nice not to warn anyone using that sink anymore! You can see in this picture that I still need to re-caulk around the sink bowl, too.

So there you have it! Just a few updates and the bathroom looks and feels like new. I just wish I could find a magic cleaner that would make the twenty year-old linoleum look whiter on the floor, but I can handle it until we do a bigger renovation to this bathroom (most likely in 2013).

I’ll have more pictures once we finish the last few things on our list! We have a lot to tackle in the next few months because we decided to have our rehearsal dinner at our house for our wedding. Crazy, right? Yes we are.

Last wednesday, we took a break from the eastern shore and visited the big apple! We mainly stayed around Chelsea and ended up in Times Square for dinner at Planet Hollywood.

My favorite part? Visiting the High Line. I was fascinated by it! You can find out information on the High Line here, but let me tell you it is a park to see if you plan on visiting the city anytime soon. I really want to go back and see it in the spring when the plant life is green and growing, but even in the middle of winter it feels so peaceful.

The High Line was built in the 1930s and lifted freight traffic 30 feet into the air so it could remove the danger of the traffic from the streets. It stopped in 1980. It has now been transformed into a public park.

Here are some pictures Jason took with the camera. I’m thinking about framing a few of these!

It came in on wednesday, and we installed it that night.

However.

I made a mistake. I will admit it here for all to read because I am usually the one nagging Jason that he needs to measure, measure, then cut.

I measured the heater wrong. Our original heater was 36″ long and for some reason, I memorized that I needed a 30″ heater in my head. So we were 6″ off.

But we went ahead, because I was angry at my mistake and we had already started to take the old one off. See the rust? That is the main reason why this desperately needed to be replaced.

Please note: always turn off the breaker! Do not attempt to install a new heater without doing this step first!

The way our heater is installed is there are two supply wires that you need to connect. But Jason called his dad and rechecked the manual just to make sure.

Once we connected the wires all we had to do was screw it back into the wall and we were done!

As you can see from the picture above, Jason and I decided that we would just replace the baseboard molding in the bathroom in order to fix our mistake in measuring. Because our bathroom only needed less than 8′ of molding, buying one piece at Lowes did not break out bank (around $8).

Here is a picture of our bathroom without molding. It looks ugly. It makes me want to tear up the old linoleum!

So just like any other project we’ve done, I started thinking about what else we could do to the bathroom while I had the molding off…

So here is what is on my to-do list for this weekend:

• Change the paint color
• Create a photo wall
• Add a decorative shelf behind the shower
• Replace the shower curtain rod (old one is covered in paint and bent)
• Re-caulk around the tub
• Replace lighting
• Repaint the vanity

Hope everyone has a great weekend! This sunday, I will be stuck between cheering for my family’s team, the Patriots, and my husband’s team, the Ravens. It will be stressful!

So here it is!

Right now we’re using one of our dining chairs — which we NEVER use because we don’t sit at our table (which is snugly fitted in-between the partial wall and the bar — I guess I’ll need to post on that tight space eventually) so it works for now. It is slightly lower than I need it to be to type comfortably, so I will be searching craigslist for my one-of-a-kind chair but for now, I’m satisfied.

To the right of my desk is a storage bench from Target and our antique grenade box on top (we found it at a wonderful store in Lancaster, PA that I am obsessed with). The wicker storage holds our DVD collection and the grenade box holds Charlie and Zoey’s extraneous toys. I think I’ll most likely be rethinking the storage now that it’s beside the desk, but I didn’t get to it last night, nor did I get to organizing the desk drawer which still has all of my makeup accessories in!

The owl, which I found at another antique shop near our home, will now hide all of my pens, scissors, etc. nicely.

The calendar I found at Anthropologie just before Christmas and it was marked down to only $7 and then it was 50% off! How crazy is that? I couldn’t pass it up. The fabric-covered “P” is also from there but I will let you know I paid a pretty penny for that one.

Do you also see what’s under my desk? You guessed it. My bag came in! I love it! I bring it everywhere.

So there you have it! Now you know where I’ll be blogging for all future posts. One more thing crossed off my list!

Want to know what it is?

“Make a place for myself to blog/craft/etc in our current home.”

Even Jason came out of the office from working on his mixing to help me out a bit. I’m so happy that I finally have a place to sit my butt down and not feel so distracted by everything else, yet still be in the main part of our home. Let’s hope I get it done for tomorrow!

So, I decided this year to do the same for Jason. I found the Audiovox Acoustic Research Outdoor Wireless Speaker and knew Jason would love it. The fact that it is sold at one of the hardware stores helped a lot, too. Basically, it is a wireless outdoor speaker that has a wireless transmitter that you can hook your ipod/iphone/etc into and play music while you are outside. Does my DJ husband need that? Absolutely not. But won’t it be nice to play music while sitting on our back porch, sipping margaritas and grilling? That is the dream that set this gift in motion.

Granted, we set this up on the first of the year and it was cold! But a girl can still dream of the future.

Here’s the package and how we (Jason) installed this beauty.

It looked (and was) pretty easy to install. It only had a few components, including the transmitter.

First, we had to take off the old light. I probably should have wiped it down before taking this picture. Can you see the cobweb?

Then Jason took off the old mount and installed the new one. They looked the same to me, but he did this probably for a good reason.

Here is our speaker waiting patiently to be installed.

Then was the tricky part. We had to re-connect all of the wires including the ground wire. This part was tough on me: I stood on my tiptoes and held the speaker close while Jason connected all the wires. This photo does not mean that Jason did this himself: we recommend two people for any new light install or else you might drop it!

Finally before my arms gave way we had it screwed into place!

Our new light/speaker in all its glory. Oh, I hate that orange. We really need to change our shutter color.

Some days I dream of having a little nook just like this to call my own. We have our home office, but it’s tucked away at the back of the house. I wouldn’t mind putting a desk (somewhere) in the living area to blog from. Isn’t this just perfect?

A few other things that I’m digging this week:

• I’m so excited that Courtney from A Little Glass Box opened up her own etsy store! Go check it out, her yarn ball garlands are so cute and unique. And if you haven’t seen her blog yet, just take a look at her home tour. I. Love. It. All.
• Even Jason was impressed with YHL’s Play Kitchen! How adorable!
• I happened upon this website and am in LOVE! What a cute idea.

The Clover bag by Epiphanie.

I have been debating between this bag and another since last week. I told Jason that in order for me to learn how to photograph better and use the camera we spent a lot of money for, I needed a bag to carry it in. I already hate that I have to carry a tote AND my purse to work everyday to bring in my laptop. Nevermind a camera bag, too! My goal was to find the bag of all bags, that could hold everything at once.

This bag is it. It can hold my 15″ Macbook Air, my camera, and all of my purse things. Here is the video that won me over with the space it has. If you are still debating the video definitely will make a decision for you!

I can’t wait to have a place for everything on the go with everything in its place! I’ve never been so excited for a bag, ever. Please don’t disappoint me Epiphanie!